Daily Answers

9-across – Heard from one who’s resigned from rustic dance house? : HEYHO

10-across – Speed of light? Uncommonly smartish! : CHRISTMAS

11-across – Made ornamental horse sound on eating too much? : FILIGREED

12-across – Hanging arranged by a saint : ARRAS

13-across – Lack variety in touch display type : BACKLIT

15-across – Absence of right traditional music : NORFOLK

17-across – Old writers’ gathering — also abstract noun : SALON

18-across – Reverse hesitation in speech : RUM

20-across – Composed clue: clue finally replaced by one with depth, easy to understand : LUCID

22-across – Make it easier to bear to go to work? : COMMUTE

25-across – So long as eastern city follows cult hero : CHEERIO

26-across – Hot destination was in possession of drugs : HADES

27-across – Make serious film, yes? No, funny : SOLEMNIFY

30-across – A feature of woodland, meadow and narrow borders of spinneys : LEAFINESS

31-across – Stop boat leaking and one breaks bad luck? : CAULK

1-down – What’s that about cutting overtures of Cats, Follies and Oliver? : CHEF

2-down – Recurring action of mouse with no tail, put in clay moulding : CYCLICAL

3-down – Element of metal on glass : LONG

4-down – NEC moves assimilated by player : ACCENTOR

5-down – Amphitheatre seating in present times needs protection of beam : GRADIN

6-down – Special faculty associated with publicity and moon furrow footwear : ESPADRILLE

7-down – Worked more, by being in development : EMBRYO

8-down – A stretch in Oxford’s dual central prison : ISIS

13-down – Simple language when entered in pen : BASIC

14-down – Utilising flexible capacitance of tongues : LINGUISTIC

16-down – My young friend’s tease act : KIDDO

19-down – Spotted ring in a muscle abnormality : MACULOSE

21-down – Heel rest with copper insert as fancy twist : CURLICUE

23-down – Unclear about direction : MIDWAY

24-down – What’s comforting about time : EASTER

26-down – Bush left out : HOLY

28-down – Greek character, one who once defended uprising? : MUCK

29-down – Couple authorise interrupting you once : YOKE

8-across – Prominently display constipation cure? : BRANDISH

9-across – Shed blood that’s good to drink : GORGE

10-across – Very pale coconuts here : ASHY

11-across – Does it suggest teacher is boring? That’s criminal conduct : KIDNAPPING

12-across – Storm brewing in it? : TEACUP

14-across – A sign on six cages : AVIARIES

15-across – Tour changed to skirt bad street artist : UTRILLO

17-across – Invite to tango, bumping daughter sideways : ASKANCE

20-across – After a month, relative drops in — he’s on target : MARKSMAN

22-across – A salad for vocal expon­ent of 11 : CAESAR

23-across – Poetically, east to north : MORNINGTON

24-across – Alcoholic virtually parking in the bar : SOAP

25-across – The wrong way for Greek character to be buried in the earth : SOUND

26-across – Now settled, but exhausted : EXPENDED

1-down – Roughly object to acquiring computer language : CRESCENT

2-down – Wish one could be like diplomat missing nothing : ENVY

3-down – Dog taken over police station without lead : PICKUP

4-down – Express enthusiasm, not ecstasy, holding tot up : CHEDDAR

5-down – Clothes an American soldier’s given up to saint : IGNATIUS

6-down – Pressure on an emperor to move — one should take a capital : PROPERNAME

7-down – Notice about liberation movement’s spirited meeting : SEANCE

13-down – Lose nerve and smart, energy being put into whip : CHICKENOUT

16-down – Drink number one taken in shelter : LEMONADE

18-down – Hard case needs resolution : CHARADES

19-down – Get this to go away — it’s complicated : KNOTTED

21-down – Stir Up Sunday passed over by a lecher : AROUSE

22-down – Is wild animal able to bite? : CANAPE

24-down – Child has first to grow : SONG

7-across – Boat, vessel crossing a river : CATAMARAN

8-across – Bird, tit with tail of grey : BOOBY

9-across – It’s bang in the middle of classic course, unfinished : EPICENTRE

10-across – Second top, say : SPEAK

12-across – Gripping bar a hindrance for bird : LINNET

13-across – Mystic recites impromptu about love : ESOTERIC

14-across – Description of a fox eating bird in a grim manner : STERNLY

17-across – Yellow bird : CHICKEN

20-across – Orange bird? : MANDARIN

22-across – Bird’s infection : THRUSH

24-across – Strip a 17, say — a 17 won’t have it? : PLUCK

25-across – Most energetic kisser apt to get carried away : SPARKIEST

26-across – Bird — be a 17! : QUAIL

27-across – Thus screening gull eating head of moorhen is graphic : SCHEMATIC

1-down – Asian capital I invested in record industry, primarily : TAIPEI

2-down – Knot clean for bird trainer : FALCONER

3-down – Pig bird : GANNET

4-down – Dog bird : HARRIER

5-down – Ring dove oddly dismissed as a bird : HOOPOE

6-down – In prayer, underwear is upside down — that’s annoying : ABRASIVE

11-down – Classy pitch so perfect, somewhat uplifting : POSH

15-down – Room one found in stomach for toxic element : THALLIUM

16-down – Bird’s adventure : LARK

18-down – Top cryptic is, for starters, a grand to compose : CARDIGAN

19-down – Keep an eye on Pakistani opener in cricket, perhaps? : INSPECT

21-down – Bird that is my love : DUCKIE

22-down – Bird’s a loser : TURKEY

23-down – Bird is in hide : SISKIN

9-across – Unable to catch director — fade out : STONEDEAF

10-across – Slate one on Cape Fear : PANIC

11-across – Hastily produced and directed Pixar film : RANUP

12-across – They follow workers entertaining director in this place : ADHERENTS

13-across – Harry Potter film attaches this: not for film : THELAST

14-across – Satellite delayed, screening start of Shutter Island : ISOLATE

17-across – Italian artist in Italy after Hollywood actor : PENNI

19-across – Second film shot here? : SET

20-across – Characters in scene making medical treatment : ENEMA

21-across – To quarrel before hit : RUNINTO

22-across – Green taxi driver’s short days : CABBAGE

24-across – Hot stuff within these threesomes, having stolen one tablet to perform? : THERMOSES

26-across – Oscar parts for The Departed scripts? : OBITS

28-across – Gives parts to son in show : CASTS

29-across – Decisions of 10 cutting bad scenes : SENTENCES

1-down – One drawing on film without restriction on series : USER

2-down – Urban one in common TV programme about north : TOWNIE

3-down – See 13 across : TEMPTATION

4-down – A number in group function : SECANT

5-down – See 13 across : OFCHRIST

6-down – Box blows up : SPAR

7-down – Sister on time after second part of film’s overrun : INUNDATE

8-down – Works parts of a drama : ACTS

13-down – Listen in to TV show one records : TAPER

15-down – Gave away too much space? Left love to give approval in bed : OVERBOOKED

16-down – Turning over English TV channel for escape : EVADE

18-down – Initially going in, son’s seen Raging Bull : NONSENSE

19-down – Film man processes topless shot : SCORSESE

22-down – Film about crime ring : CASINO

23-down – Each star hugs tart : APIECE

24-down – Gather food : TUCK

25-down – Film not heard by audience … : MIST

27-down – … while in quiet frame : SASH

8-across – China in Korea, say — one’s ideal partner? : SOULMATE

9-across – A lot came to be evacuated immediately : ATONCE

10-across – See 22 : MORE

11-across – Too bad, if starters in restaurant burnt beyond recognition — there’s salad! : RABBITFOOD

12-across – Sound of bagpipes that’s hard to bear! : BURDEN

14-across – Policeman not able to claim that Spanish victory : CONQUEST

15-across – See 3 : BUFFETT

17-across – Hot spring turned on for every one, possibly : PERHAPS

20-across – Queen inside volcano should be brought back, they feel : ANTENNAE

22-across – Molière requires three seconds to contrive a comparatively oxymoronic theatrical cliché? : LESSIS

23-across – Spooner’s locks implanted, nothing on top : BAREHEADED

24-across – See 2 : MOON

25-across – Intoxicating drink making camels woozy : MESCAL

26-across – Consider putting cut inside lid : CHEWOVER

1-down – State capital no great thing, house overlooking it : HONOLULU

2-down – Rare phenomenon, very rare to idle about : BLUE

3-down – Successful investor in 11? Then capital in tomatoes! : WARREN

4-down – Recovery when hit by the Beatles : GETBACK

5-down – One plays this G & S character : PATIENCE

6-down – Sweaty hands, signs of discomfort in woman : HOTFLUSHES

7-down – A short type of clue : ACROSS

13-down – Redraft in decree outlining very strong argument : DIFFERENCE

16-down – Flashy and cheap little houses to auction off : TINSELLY

18-down – Criminal person, one inside, ending in slammer : PRISONER

19-down – Finding scorer, cup ties both kicking off : VERDICT

21-down – Apple inferior to an unspecified number — more in apple-pie order? : NEATER

22-down – Half a century, one counting as a run : LADDER

24-down – Low tide initially doubtful : MOOT